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Dr. C. D. Michener (2000: p.643), while commenting upon genus Parammobatodes made a note "minute species of a new genus near Parammobatodes known from southwestern Asia to Sri Lanka are cleptoparasites of Nomioides (Halictidae)" indicating D. Baker and J. Rozen, personal communications, 1993, 1998.
Dr. J. G. Rozen, Jr. communicated me on 1 May 2003, "the new genus near Parammobatodes has not been named yet despite that fact that we (Rozen & Baker) have known about it for a good many years. I first collected it at Gharo near Karachi (Pakistan) in 1984 where I collected larvae and pupae of it from the nests of Nomiodes. Donald Baker was going to describe the genus and probably, recently due to the inspiration of M. S. Engel, Dr. Baker is doing some progress in this direction".
Dr. C. D. Michener communicated me on 16 May 2003 "The genus has not been published yet. Baker and Engel should get it out soon".
Until the new genus, with probably one species, is described, this webpage will stand in this condition, denoting that still one more genus of bees is yet to be described from our destined territory.
Dr. Rajiv K. Gupta
Department of Zoology
Jai Narain Vyas University
Jodhpur 342 005, India
Ph. +91-291-272 6666
E-mail: [email protected]
Visit "An Updating Bibliography of the Bees of the World" by the same author for the authors' linked references mentioned in this document.